Virtualization-Engineer, Automation-Engineer, Infrastructure-Engineer Jobs

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

• Serve as senior engineering owner for the SDDC platform, establishing architecture, configuration standards, operational procedures, and engineering roadmaps.
• Build, configure, and optimize virtualization clusters, including vSphere HA, DRS, resource pools, hosts, datastores, and distributed switches, and manage ESXi and vCenter patching, upgrades, and certificates.
• Monitor platform capacity, availability, performance, and compliance, and recommend scaling, balancing, or remediation actions.
• Engineer vSAN clusters, storage policies, and fault domains, and troubleshoot vSAN performance, resynchronization, and policy-compliance issues.
• Engineer NSX segments, transport zones, gateways, routing, and distributed security controls, coordinating changes with network and cybersecurity teams.
• Administer SRM protection groups and recovery plans, develop and maintain automated failover and failback procedures, and support quarterly COOP exercises and continuity events.
• Design and implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI, or APIs, with version control, peer review, testing, rollback, secrets protection, and drift detection.
• Coordinate with workload owners on resource requirements, placement, templates, and snapshots, preserving the division between platform and workload ownership.
• Provide Tier 4 engineering support for cross-platform incidents, isolate platform faults during outages, and conduct root-cause analyses and develop corrective actions.
• Maintain platform configuration backups, apply DISA STIGs and security baselines, and support RMF evidence, vulnerability remediation, and vendor-advisory reviews.
• Support technology refreshes and modernization; develop platform roadmaps, technical options, and rough-order cost estimates.
• Support DISA-hosting transitions through discovery, dependency documentation, readiness assessment, migration waves, test and rollback plans, cutover, and post-migration stabilization.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, as-built documentation, SOPs, and recovery procedures, and provide platform metrics and modernization status for program reporting.

Education & Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience where permitted by the labor category.
• Minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience in virtualization, systems engineering, data-center infrastructure, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation.
• Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter and with vSAN, NSX, SRM, or comparable software-defined storage, network-virtualization, and disaster-recovery technologies.
• Experience developing or maintaining infrastructure-automation solutions and troubleshooting complex issues across compute, storage, network, virtualization, and automation layers.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restoration, capacity management, and lifecycle practices.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, and technical problem-solving skills.

Preferred:

• Formal Terraform and Ansible training.
• Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation or VMware Aria, and PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, or REST APIs.
• Experience supporting federal or DoD virtualization environments and migrations to DISA enterprise-hosting platforms.
• Experience with DISA STIGs, RMF controls, vulnerability remediation, and configuration compliance.
• Experience developing Infrastructure as Code within CI/CD and Git workflows with automated testing and code scanning.

Certifications

• Required: None.
• Preferred: VMware Certified Professional, VMware Certified Advanced Professional, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation, ITIL 4 Foundation, or relevant cloud, security, storage, or network certification.

Security Clearance

• Active Secret clearance or higher is required.

Other (Travel, Work Environment, DoD 8570 Requirements, Administrative Notes, etc.)

Work Environment / Travel:

• Remote position; Chicago, IL–area candidates preferred.
• Occasional on-site support, after-hours maintenance, disaster-recovery exercises, incident response, and travel may be required.

Administrative Notes:

Period of Performance: March 1, 2027 – February 28, 2033

Contract Start Date: March 1, 2027

Note: By applying to this position, the candidate acknowledges and consents to having their resume included in an active competitive Government contract bid.

Originally posted on Himalayas

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

• Configure, administer, and maintain virtualization clusters, including vSphere HA, DRS, resource pools, hosts, datastores, and distributed switches, and manage ESXi and vCenter patching, upgrades, and certificates.
• Monitor platform capacity, availability, performance, and compliance, and recommend scaling, balancing, or remediation actions.
• Configure and support vSAN clusters, storage policies, and fault domains, and troubleshoot vSAN performance, resynchronization, and policy-compliance issues.
• Configure and support NSX segments, transport zones, gateways, routing, and distributed security controls, coordinating changes with network and cybersecurity teams.
• Administer SRM protection groups and recovery plans, execute and document failover and failback tests, and support quarterly COOP exercises and continuity events.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI, or APIs, with version control, peer review, testing, rollback, secrets protection, and drift detection.
• Coordinate with workload owners on resource requirements, placement, templates, and snapshots, preserving the division between platform and workload ownership.
• Provide advanced engineering support for cross-platform incidents, isolate platform faults during outages, and collect evidence for root-cause analysis and implement corrective actions.
• Maintain platform configuration backups, apply DISA STIGs and security baselines, and support RMF evidence, vulnerability remediation, and vendor-advisory reviews.
• Support technology refreshes and modernization; contribute to capacity, lifecycle, and modernization assessments.
• Support DISA-hosting transitions through discovery, dependency documentation, readiness assessment, test and rollback plans, cutover, and post-migration stabilization.
• Maintain architecture diagrams, as-built documentation, SOPs, and recovery procedures, and provide platform metrics and modernization status for program reporting.

Education & Experience

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience where permitted by the labor category.
• Minimum of six (6) years of relevant experience in virtualization, systems engineering, data-center infrastructure, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation.
• Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter and with vSAN, NSX, SRM, or comparable software-defined storage, network-virtualization, and disaster-recovery technologies.
• Experience developing or maintaining infrastructure-automation solutions and troubleshooting issues across compute, storage, network, virtualization, and automation layers.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup and restoration, capacity management, and lifecycle practices.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, and technical problem-solving skills.

Preferred:

• Formal Terraform and Ansible training.
• Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation or VMware Aria, and PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, or REST APIs.
• Experience supporting federal or DoD virtualization environments and migrations to DISA enterprise-hosting platforms.
• Experience with DISA STIGs, RMF controls, vulnerability remediation, and configuration compliance.
• Experience developing Infrastructure as Code within CI/CD and Git workflows with automated testing and code scanning.

Certifications

• Required: None.
• Preferred: VMware Certified Professional, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation, ITIL 4 Foundation, or relevant cloud, security, storage, or network certification.

Security Clearance

• Active Secret clearance or higher is required.

Other (Travel, Work Environment, DoD 8570 Requirements, Administrative Notes, etc.)

Work Environment / Travel:

• Remote position; Chicago, IL–area candidates preferred.
• Occasional on-site support, after-hours maintenance, disaster-recovery exercises, incident response, and travel may be required.

Administrative Notes:

Period of Performance: March 1, 2027 – February 28, 2033

Contract Start Date: March 1, 2027

Note: By applying to this position, the candidate acknowledges and consents to having their resume included in an active competitive Government contract bid.

Originally posted on Himalayas

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Virtualization / Automation Engineer to design, operate, secure, automate, and modernize the virtualization and Software-Defined Data Center platforms supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This senior engineering position owns the hypervisor and SDDC platform layers, including VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, and associated infrastructure-automation capabilities.

The Virtualization / Automation Engineer maintains reliable, secure, and scalable platform services across production, development, testing, COOP, disaster-recovery, and hybrid-hosting environments. The position develops Infrastructure as Code and configuration-automation solutions that improve consistency, deployment speed, recoverability, security, and operational visibility.

This role is focused on virtualization-platform engineering and automation. Routine ownership of guest operating systems, applications, databases, and cloud workloads remains with the appropriate system, application, database, and cloud teams. The engineer establishes and maintains the underlying platform capabilities those teams consume and coordinates closely with them to resolve cross-layer issues.

The engineer also supports the transition of applicable services from on-premises infrastructure to centralized DISA-hosting platforms. This includes discovery, dependency analysis, platform readiness, migration planning, technical validation, cutover support, and post-transition stabilization.

This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred. Occasional on-site support, after-hours maintenance, incident response, and travel may be required.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Virtualization / Automation Engineer will:

• Design, configure, administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise hypervisor and Software-Defined Data Center platforms.
• Serve as the senior engineering owner for VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, and associated platform-management capabilities.
• Establish platform architecture, configuration standards, operational procedures, and engineering roadmaps.
• Build and maintain highly available virtualization clusters supporting production, development, testing, and recovery environments.
• Configure and optimize vSphere High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, resource pools, clusters, hosts, datastores, distributed switches, and related platform services.
• Manage ESXi hosts, vCenter services, platform certificates, licensing, upgrades, patches, firmware dependencies, and approved security configurations.
• Monitor platform capacity, availability, utilization, performance, health, and configuration compliance.
• Analyze processor, memory, storage, network, and cluster utilization and recommend scaling, balancing, or remediation actions.
• Engineer and maintain vSAN clusters, disk groups, storage policies, fault domains, capacity controls, health monitoring, and recovery processes.
• Troubleshoot vSAN performance, availability, resynchronization, capacity, hardware, and policy-compliance issues.
• Engineer and support NSX network-virtualization capabilities, including segments, transport zones, gateways, routing, switching, distributed security controls, and platform connectivity.
• Coordinate NSX changes with network, cybersecurity, application, and cloud teams.
• Administer and maintain VMware Site Recovery Manager configurations, protection groups, recovery plans, inventory mappings, network mappings, and recovery priorities.
• Develop, test, document, and maintain automated failover and failback procedures.
• Support COOP exercises, disaster-recovery tests, system-restoration activities, and actual continuity events.
• Validate platform recovery objectives and document exercise results, deficiencies, corrective actions, and lessons learned.
• Design and implement infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI, APIs, or comparable tools.
• Develop reusable modules, playbooks, scripts, templates, and pipelines for provisioning, configuration, validation, patching, compliance, and recovery.
• Store automation code in approved version-control repositories and follow established review, testing, approval, and release practices.
• Implement appropriate error handling, logging, secrets protection, state management, rollback, and validation within automation solutions.
• Eliminate repetitive manual activities through secure, tested, and supportable automation.
• Establish automated configuration checks and identify drift from approved platform baselines.
• Support infrastructure provisioning while preserving the division between virtualization-platform ownership and guest operating-system, application, database, or workload ownership.
• Coordinate with system administrators and workload owners on resource requirements, virtual-machine placement, templates, snapshots, virtual hardware, and platform dependencies.
• Coordinate with storage, network, cloud, cybersecurity, and application teams to diagnose cross-platform incidents.
• Provide Tier 4 engineering support for complex virtualization, storage, network-virtualization, automation, and recovery incidents.
• Support outage response by isolating platform faults, restoring affected capabilities, implementing approved workarounds, and providing technical status information.
• Conduct root-cause analyses and develop corrective and preventive actions for recurring platform incidents.
• Maintain current backups of applicable platform configurations and test restoration procedures.
• Develop and enforce platform standards aligned with DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, vulnerability directives, and approved security requirements.
• Support Risk Management Framework control implementation, technical evidence collection, remediation, and assessment activities for the virtualization platform.
• Evaluate platform vulnerabilities, vendor advisories, security patches, and configuration changes for operational impact.
• Support technology refreshes and modernization initiatives involving compute, storage, network virtualization, hyperconverged infrastructure, and SDDC capabilities.
• Assess existing virtualization capabilities, technical debt, capacity constraints, security gaps, and lifecycle risks.
• Develop platform roadmaps, technical options, migration approaches, rough-order cost estimates, and implementation recommendations.
• Support the transition of applicable infrastructure and services to centralized DISA-hosting platforms.
• Perform discovery and document platform inventories, configurations, interdependencies, interfaces, network requirements, storage requirements, recovery requirements, and migration constraints.
• Assess workload and platform readiness while coordinating with the teams responsible for guest operating systems, applications, databases, and cloud workloads.
• Develop and support migration waves, test plans, rollback plans, cutover procedures, validation criteria, and stabilization activities.
• Coordinate with DISA, Government stakeholders, vendors, and technical teams during hosting-transition activities.
• Integrate SDDC capabilities with cloud, COOP, and on-premises environments to support workload mobility, resilient operations, and enterprise service orchestration.
• Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, as-built documentation, configuration baselines, standard operating procedures, automation documentation, recovery procedures, and engineering records.
• Follow approved change, release, configuration, incident, problem, security, and quality-management processes.
• Provide platform metrics, capacity data, risks, issues, accomplishments, and modernization status for program reporting.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Candidates must meet all of the following requirements:

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience where permitted by the applicable labor category.
• Minimum of eight years of relevant experience in virtualization, systems engineering, data-center infrastructure, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or a related technical discipline.
• Hands-on experience engineering or administering enterprise hypervisor or Software-Defined Data Center platforms.
• Experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter in an enterprise environment.
• Experience supporting vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, or comparable software-defined storage, network-virtualization, and disaster-recovery technologies.
• Experience developing or maintaining infrastructure-automation solutions.
• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical enterprise infrastructure.
• Experience troubleshooting complex issues across compute, storage, network, virtualization, and automation layers.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup, restoration, capacity management, performance management, and infrastructure lifecycle practices.
• Ability to develop architecture diagrams, technical procedures, automation documentation, recovery plans, and engineering recommendations.
• Ability to support after-hours maintenance, disaster-recovery exercises, and critical incident response when required.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, and technical problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

The following qualifications are preferred but are not required:

• Formal Terraform training.
• Formal Ansible training.
• VMware Certified Professional certification.
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional or another advanced VMware certification.
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate certification.
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation or comparable automation certification.
• Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation or VMware Aria automation and operations capabilities.
• Experience with PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, or comparable scripting technologies.
• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense virtualization environments.
• Experience supporting DISA-hosted services or migrations to DISA enterprise-hosting platforms.
• Experience with DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides, Risk Management Framework controls, vulnerability remediation, and configuration compliance.
• Experience integrating virtualization platforms with hybrid-cloud, COOP, and disaster-recovery environments.
• Experience developing Infrastructure as Code within controlled CI/CD and version-control workflows.
• Experience with Git, automated testing, peer review, code scanning, and configuration-drift detection.
• Experience supporting large-scale platform migrations, data-center modernization, or hosting transitions.
• ITIL v4 Foundation certification.
• Relevant cloud, security, storage, or network certification.

Skills and Competencies

• Enterprise virtualization and SDDC engineering.
• VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, and SRM.
• Infrastructure as Code and configuration automation.
• High availability, disaster recovery, and COOP support.
• Platform capacity, performance, and lifecycle management.
• Secure platform configuration and compliance.
• Complex infrastructure troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Hybrid-hosting and migration planning.
• Architecture and technical-documentation development.
• Cross-functional engineering coordination.
• Controlled change and release implementation.
• Strong attention to detail and configuration discipline.
• Ability to distinguish platform responsibilities from guest operating-system and workload ownership.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.

Originally posted on Himalayas

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Virtualization / Automation Engineer to operate, maintain, automate, and improve the virtualization and Software-Defined Data Center platforms supporting the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This position supports VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, and associated infrastructure-automation capabilities.

The Virtualization / Automation Engineer maintains secure, available, scalable, and recoverable platform services across production, development, testing, COOP, disaster-recovery, and hybrid-hosting environments. The engineer develops and maintains Infrastructure as Code and configuration-automation solutions that improve operational consistency, deployment speed, security, compliance, and recoverability.

This role is focused on the virtualization platform and its supporting automation. Routine ownership of guest operating systems, applications, databases, and cloud workloads remains with the appropriate system, application, database, and cloud teams. The engineer supports those teams by delivering and maintaining the underlying compute, storage, network-virtualization, and recovery capabilities their workloads consume.

The position also supports the transition of applicable infrastructure and services from on-premises environments to centralized DISA-hosting platforms through discovery, documentation, platform preparation, migration support, technical validation, and post-transition stabilization.

This position is remote, with Chicago-area candidates preferred. Occasional on-site support, after-hours maintenance, incident response, and travel may be required.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Virtualization / Automation Engineer will:

• Configure, administer, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize enterprise hypervisor and Software-Defined Data Center platforms.

• Support VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, and associated platform-management capabilities.

• Maintain virtualization clusters supporting production, development, testing, COOP, and disaster-recovery environments.

• Configure and support vSphere High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, resource pools, clusters, hosts, datastores, distributed switches, and related platform services.

• Support ESXi host and vCenter installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, certificate maintenance, and lifecycle activities.

• Monitor platform capacity, availability, performance, utilization, health, and configuration compliance.

• Analyze processor, memory, storage, network, and cluster utilization and recommend corrective or capacity actions.

• Configure and support vSAN clusters, disk groups, storage policies, capacity controls, fault domains, and health monitoring.

• Troubleshoot vSAN capacity, performance, availability, resynchronization, hardware, and policy-compliance issues.

• Configure and support approved NSX network-virtualization capabilities, including segments, transport zones, gateways, virtual switching, routing, and distributed security controls.

• Coordinate NSX activities with network, cybersecurity, systems, application, and cloud teams.

• Administer VMware Site Recovery Manager configurations, protection groups, inventory mappings, network mappings, and recovery plans.

• Execute and document approved recovery-plan tests, failover activities, and failback activities.

• Support quarterly COOP exercises, disaster-recovery testing, backup restoration, and actual continuity events.

• Document exercise results, technical deficiencies, corrective actions, and lessons learned.

• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, PowerCLI, APIs, or comparable tools.

• Create reusable modules, playbooks, scripts, templates, and workflows for provisioning, configuration, validation, patching, compliance, and recovery.

• Maintain automation code in approved version-control repositories.

• Follow established peer-review, testing, approval, release, rollback, and documentation procedures for automation changes.

• Implement appropriate logging, error handling, secrets protection, state management, and validation within automation solutions.

• Automate repetitive administrative and configuration activities when authorized.

• Support automated configuration-baseline checks and identify drift from approved platform standards.

• Support infrastructure provisioning while preserving the division between platform ownership and guest operating-system, application, database, and workload ownership.

• Coordinate with system administrators and workload owners regarding resource requirements, placement, templates, snapshots, virtual hardware, and platform dependencies.

• Coordinate with storage, network, cloud, application, database, and cybersecurity teams to troubleshoot cross-platform incidents.

• Provide advanced engineering support for virtualization, software-defined storage, network virtualization, automation, and recovery issues.

• Support outage response by isolating platform failures, restoring services, implementing approved workarounds, and providing technical status updates.

• Collect platform logs, events, performance information, configuration data, and other evidence needed for root-cause analysis.

• Implement approved corrective and preventive actions resulting from incident and problem reviews.

• Maintain backups of applicable platform configurations and support restoration testing.

• Apply approved platform security baselines, patches, hardening settings, and configuration standards.

• Support compliance with DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides and applicable vulnerability directives.

• Assist with Risk Management Framework control implementation, evidence collection, assessment support, and remediation activities.

• Review vendor notices, vulnerabilities, patches, and lifecycle information for potential platform impact.

• Support technology refreshes and modernization activities involving compute, storage, network virtualization, hyperconverged infrastructure, and SDDC capabilities.

• Assist with assessments of platform capacity, technical debt, security gaps, lifecycle risks, and modernization opportunities.

• Contribute technical information to architecture options, implementation plans, schedules, cost estimates, and engineering recommendations.

• Support the transition of applicable infrastructure and services to centralized DISA-hosting platforms.

• Perform discovery and document existing platform inventories, configurations, interfaces, dependencies, network requirements, storage requirements, and recovery requirements.

• Assist with platform-readiness assessments and coordinate with guest operating-system, application, database, and cloud-workload owners.

• Support migration test plans, implementation procedures, rollback plans, cutover activities, validation, and post-migration stabilization.

• Coordinate with Government stakeholders, DISA representatives, vendors, and technical teams during hosting-transition activities.

• Support integration of SDDC capabilities with cloud, COOP, and on-premises environments.

• Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, as-built documentation, configuration baselines, standard operating procedures, automation documentation, and recovery procedures.

• Follow approved change, release, incident, problem, configuration, security, and quality-management processes.

• Provide platform metrics, capacity information, accomplishments, risks, issues, and modernization status for program reporting.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Candidates must meet all of the following requirements:

• Active Secret clearance or higher.

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience where permitted by the applicable labor category.

• Minimum of six years of relevant experience in virtualization, systems engineering, data-center infrastructure, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, or a related technical discipline.

• Hands-on experience administering enterprise hypervisor or Software-Defined Data Center platforms.

• Experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, and vCenter in an enterprise environment.

• Experience supporting vSAN, NSX, Site Recovery Manager, or comparable software-defined storage, network-virtualization, and disaster-recovery technologies.

• Experience developing, executing, or maintaining infrastructure-automation solutions.

• Experience troubleshooting issues across virtualization, compute, storage, network, and automation layers.

• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup, restoration, capacity management, performance monitoring, and infrastructure lifecycle practices.

• Ability to create and maintain technical procedures, automation documentation, configuration records, architecture diagrams, and recovery documentation.

• Ability to support after-hours maintenance, disaster-recovery exercises, and critical incident response when required.

• Strong written, verbal, analytical, and technical problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

The following qualifications are preferred but are not required:

• Formal Terraform training.

• Formal Ansible training.

• VMware Certified Professional certification.

• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate certification.

• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation or comparable automation certification.

• Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation or VMware Aria automation and operations capabilities.

• Experience with PowerCLI, PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, or comparable scripting technologies.

• Experience supporting federal or Department of Defense virtualization environments.

• Experience supporting DISA-hosted services or migrations to DISA enterprise-hosting platforms.

• Experience with DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, Risk Management Framework controls, vulnerability remediation, and configuration compliance.

• Experience integrating virtualization platforms with hybrid-cloud, COOP, or disaster-recovery environments.

• Experience developing Infrastructure as Code within controlled version-control and CI/CD workflows.

• Experience with Git, automated testing, peer review, code scanning, and configuration-drift detection.

• Experience supporting data-center modernization, platform migrations, or hosting transitions.

• ITIL v4 Foundation certification.

• Relevant cloud, security, storage, or network certification.

Skills and Competencies

• Enterprise virtualization and SDDC administration.

• VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, NSX, and SRM.

• Infrastructure as Code and configuration automation.

• High availability, disaster recovery, and COOP support.

• Platform capacity, performance, and lifecycle management.

• Secure configuration and compliance support.

• Complex infrastructure troubleshooting.

• Hybrid-hosting and migration support.

• Technical-documentation development.

• Cross-functional engineering coordination.

• Controlled change and release implementation.

• Strong attention to detail and configuration discipline.

• Ability to distinguish virtualization-platform responsibilities from guest operating-system and workload ownership.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.

Originally posted on Himalayas